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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Following on from the hugely successful Big Book of Fashion Illustration, the Big Book of Contemporary Illustration covers the broadest range of illustration today from digital drawing, pixelated pictures, Photoshop fantasies to the traditional techniques of sketching and painting from over 160 international artists. With close to 1000 illustrations, the categories covered range from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: More and more people are getting into body art, but how do you go about choosing a design? It is, after all, a lifetime decision that’s going to cost thousands of dollars to erase or alter? Now in paperback, 500 Tattoo Designs is the ultimate source for inspiration and guidance. Neatly organized by theme, the clearly-executed line drawings cover every conceivable subject area, from historical and…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Voted the Number One movie on the American Film Institute's List of 100 Funniest Movies, «Some Like It Hot» remains an undisguised movie classic, 50 years after its debut. Billy Wilder's hilarious film skilfully blends several American preoccupations — jazz, gangsters, drag, and Marilyn Monroe — into one scintillating bootleg cocktail. «The Some Like It Hot Companion» details the complete history…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This title features hundreds of prints from this key decade of fashion design. This is a unique sourcebook for designers and students. It is ideal for the 1980s revival in fashion design and print. It contains exclusive illustrations and original artwork of print design. A sourcebook of 1980s fashion print, this edition showcases prints from a design period that is having a major revival.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an unparalleled insight into lifestyles that have disappeared forever. Choice of dress has always been governed by a series of influences — social and economic, artistic and technical — and, of course, the vagaries of individual taste. Jane Ashelford has used the National Trust's stunning costume and textile collections as well as its historic house…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A fitting tribute to the undisputed 'King of Pop', this lavishly illustrated book takes us on a visual tour of Michael Jackson's colourful, highly publicized, sometimes controversial, but exceptionally gifted life. From his earliest performances with The Jackson 5 in the '60s to multi-million album success as a solo artist, this book provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at this essentially…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: It perhaps seems impossible that any images of the Beatles remain unseen, but this fascinating book accompanied by a DVD of rare 8mm footage provides a whole new insight into the Beatles, in pictures. The over 200 images include several early photos of The Quarrymen — when John first met Paul; the filming of A Hard Day's Night at Paddington; the Beatles in the Bahamas in 1965 filming Help; John…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Still going strong after 40 years, The Rolling Stones have proved themselves to be the ultimate rock band. While we are familiar with images of the band from the last 20 or so years, this book takes a pictorial journey back to roots of rock stardom and to a long-lost age of innocence in the music industry. Featuring over 200 pages of extremely rare photographs — most never previously published —…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Elizabeth Taylor was one of the first great actresses to embrace the Hollywood lifestyle. Accomplished in her field and revered for her beauty, Liz's career firmly placed her in the limelight from an early age. Films such as National Velvet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof paved the way for her to become the first actress to be paid $1 million for her infamous appearance…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: One of the world's best collections of period designs brought together as an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds, from fabric, textile, wallpaper, stained glass to graphic and fashion designers. This collection of over 500 designs covers wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, costume, tiles and ceramics. The designs range from medieval through renaissance and the 19th century right up to…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This fascinating collection showcases an astonishing range of period pieces, from the 1750 whale-boned corsets, through the invention of the sewing machine and mass-produced corsets of the 1850s to the makeshift corsets of World War I.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This bestselling botanical illustration title new in paperback. Devised by experienced teacher and award-winning artist Rosie Martin, this course is based on the botanical illustration course taught at the highly acclaimed Eden Project in Cornwall.

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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jack is one of the UK's most popular, and yet most controversial, contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money, the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening and 'The Singing Butler' made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the world's most…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style — hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell — and our fascination with the 'frock' has not gone away. From Gres’ draping to Dior’s New Look, from Mary Quant’s mini to Hussein Chalayan’s mechanical marvels, this…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Steve McQueen, the self confessed ‘King of Cool’ is as popular today as in the 50s and 60s when he became famous in films such as The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair and later The Towering Inferno. McQueen began his career in television and moved into film in the mid 1950s when he became a true cinema icon, and classic images of him are reproduced today. In many of…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Launched in March 1972 priced 20p, 'Cosmopolitan' began as it meant to go on: The diet worth eating for; I was a sleep-around girl; How to turn a man on when he's having problems in bed; Jilly Cooper on what makes David Niven and Roy Jenkins fantastic lovers. 'The Best of Cosmopolitan: The 70s and 80s' is a fascinating trawl through these hallowed pages, the woman's Bible to all things sex,…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A sourcebook of 1960s fashion print – the apogee of fashion print – that will be the inspiration for designers for years to come. The creativity of the period is given full expression in this sourcebook of hundreds of designs that makes it an essential for contemporary design practitioners and students. The book contains exclusive illustrations and original artwork from designers as well as…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Sophia Loren is seen as one of the first cinematic sex symbols, her charisma and voluptuous figure attracted many admirers. Yet her life away from the cameras may surprise some — she was married to Carlo Ponti, film producer, throughout her career and until his recent death. She also struggled to become a mother and considered her two children her greatest accomplishment. Loren came from…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Where did John, Paul and George try to post Ringo into a letterbox? Which railway stations were locations in 'A Hard Day's Night? ''Where was 'I Am The Walrus' filmed? They may have been born in Liverpool, but London was the Beatles' home away from home; the place where they really grew into their roles as international musical and cultural icons. Subsequently, all over the city, there are sites…